Movies and TV shows like Ezel
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Ezel (2009)
43K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating, realistic
Plot:
tragic love, warden, mafia, vengeance, manipulation, ex convict, hidden identity, tragic hero, betrayal, murder, seduction, life is a bitch, organized crime, frame up, rivalry, disorder, false arrest, trial, regret, prison, muslim, kurd, love, heroes, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Most similar movies to Ezel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, suspense and serious films and TV series with plots about murder, betrayal, family relations, revenge, rivalry, mafia and prison mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ezel: Suskunlar (2012), The Take (2009), La Reina del Sur (2011), Insider (2016), Top Dog (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Suskunlar, is a Turkish television drama series based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of Sleepers.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime drama, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, haunted by the past, vengeance, lawyer, buddies, rivalry, secret, childhood trauma, danger, murder, death, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story:
Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mob boss, mafia, respect, power struggle, relatives, crime boss, british, criminal heroes, betrayal, gangster, victim, loss of family member ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, east end london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 378 min.
TV show
Story:
After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, novela, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
rise to the top, mafia, cocaine, power struggle, drug dealing, vengeance, rivalry, organized crime, smuggling, mob boss, drug traffic, gang war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, spain, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Even though two brothers are completely separated from each other after the imprisoning of their father and the kidnapping of their twin brother, they meet by coincidence years after when both choose to enter the police academy.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, death, twists and turns, fall in love, police officer, sting operation, marriage, mafia, hostage, arrest, money, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
A mysterious disappearance makes two completely separate worlds collide, creating an extremely odd couple – the lawyer Emily and recently released convict Teddy. They have two opposing desires. She wants up. He wants out. She wants to secure her ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
mafia, lawyer, investigation, criminal underworld, prison, conspiracy, career, law firm, brother brother relationship, family tragedy, female lawyer, crime boss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Cevdet, a retired commissioner, and his wife spend their pensions in peace on a farm away from the city. Suddenly the life of the family is destroyed by the sudden arrival of a terrible news from the little son.
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, family relations, friendship, police, betrayal, husband wife relationship, secret, infidelity, murder, murder trial, nordic ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
387K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot:
money laundering, drug cartel, danger, family relations, rivalry, murder, teenage girl, finance, drug, organized crime, mafia, teenage boy ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, missouri, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Style:
neo noir, intense, harsh, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
plastic surgery, prison, murder, vengeance, betrayal, gangster, robbery, rehabilitation, disfigured, revenge, money, doctor ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
new orleans, usa, new jersey, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The series tells the life of Hizir Cakirbeyli. It has entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, tough heroes, criminal heroes, murder, society, uninhibited rivalry, blood, police investigation, leadership, betrayal, gang, violence ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, detective, suspense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, police detective, murder, false accusation, chase, uncover truth, disorder, life turned upside down, protagonist as suspect, wanted, danger, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, manchester
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Tahsin is head of the Korludag family, his wealth and great influence in society makes him feared and respected by everyone. There isn’t a place or person in town that he does not control. Tahsin has two children; his son Korhan is a big ...
Style:
captivating, tense, family saga, tension, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family feud, couples, death, love and romance, murder, secret, prison, revenge, forbidden love, danger, rivalry, love ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
love triangle, scapegoat, revenge, ex convict, manipulation, murder, going straight, crime gone awry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, frame up, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Hiding a mysterious past, a mother lives like a nameless fugitive with her daughter as they make hotels their home and see everyone else as a threat.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, hotel, motherhood, on the run, fugitive, protective parent, overprotective mother, life is a bitch, secret past, hidden identity, secret ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Forced to become an apprentice cop, cocky playboy Igor finds he's got a knack for police work. But his job soon takes him down a dark personal path.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
wealth, investigation, love triangle, clubbing, rivalry, romantic relationship, friendship, murder, danger, money, nightclub, hopes ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, organized crime, prison, violence, undercover agent, vengeance, revenge, mafia, death of wife, gangster, partners against crime, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, neo noir, intellectual ...
Plot:
criminal underworld, mafia, russian mafia, organized crime, businessman, vengeance, confronting the past, crime boss, family business, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, assassin ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Seeking to uncover the truth about his past, a henchman betrays someone close to him and assumes a new identity in a small Istanbul neighborhood.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, betrayal, deception, identity, mistaken identity, stolen identity, new identity, criminal, murderer, on the lam, hidden identity ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
police, missing woman, murder investigation, murder, lawyer, investigation, heroes, uncover truth, partners against crime, family relations, who done it, law enforcement ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story:
A big-time social media influencer plunges headfirst into the lives of four women fueled by a thirst for the truth about her birth — and revenge.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
rape, abandoned baby, secret, teenage pregnancy, murder, influencer, social media, male female relationship, relationships, couples, parents and children, couple relations ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. ...
Style:
serious, exciting, sexy, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
biker, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, prison, organized crime, gang, group of criminals, power struggle, friends, young man, arms dealing, police corruption ...
Time:
2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, northern california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story:
Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, thief, robbery, theft, partners in crime, perfect crime, group of criminals, bankruptcy, plan, unlikely criminals, corruption ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
colombia, south america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Naeem, who has endured 15 years in prison for his daughter's love, faces a major crisis after his release to see her.
Style:
tense, captivating, harsh, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
prison, police, daughter, father, love, fight, father and daughter, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, muslim, flashback ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy, Jimmy, Kevin and Sean. There is nothing these four Irish brothers wouldn't do to protect each other, and for them that means lying, cheating, stealing and, occasionally, calling the cops. Narrated by wannabe ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, making love, murder, mob boss, vengeance, blind ambition, family business, criminal heroes, rivalry, gang, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
TV show
Story:
The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg's criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse and a tangled web of betrayal threaten to destroy them.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, organized crime, gangster, parents and children, gang war, rivalry, mafia, family business, revenge, mercilessness, betrayal, crime boss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
A defamed ex-cop, who is struggling to get back his son, is put on undercover duty within the biggest mafia in Istanbul.
Style:
captivating, unusual plot structure, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ex cop, revenge, conspiracy, friendship, doctor, father son relationship, mafia, love, family relations, working undercover, criminal, gang ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
'Deceived' is about economic crime. About what happens to people when greed and ambition corrupts. The series exposeses viewers into economic crimes complex world. In the banks, the stock exchange and in boardrooms.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corporate crime, lawyer, greed, dishonesty, hopes, legal, legal investigation, investigation, uncover truth, price of justice, cons and scams, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
746
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story:
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, family problems, gang, drug dealing, betrayal, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
622
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-con with ties to the Russian mob and Aryan brotherhood yearns to escape his past life of violence but ultimately decides to undertake one last assignment to escape the Russian mob and earn his freedom.
Style:
suspense, dark, intense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, criminal underworld, betrayal, vengeance, violent, bloodbath, organized crime, ex convict, russian mafia, gangster, mafia, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Searching for his kidnapped daughter, Antonio sets off a series of events affecting scores of people when he maneuvers to be sent to prison in Colombia.
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, desperation, kidnapping, abduction, missing child, male protagonist, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, police, dishonesty, fight, family relations ...
Place:
colombia, spain, valencia spain, south america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, renewed love, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, betrayal, dishonesty, friends, one more chance, frame up, cons and scams, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, england
Similarity:
100%
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